Exceptional Voices and Vision

Meet two SJSU English professors whose recently published books reflect a deep sense of place and history. (Christina Olivas Photo)

In the Buddha Factory by Alan Soldofsky

The Center for Literary Arts continues its 2013-14 season with readings by two SJSU English professors whose recently published books reflect a deep sense of place and history. With “In the Buddha Factory,” Alan Soldofsky explores the opposite tensions of place and no place, rich and poor, finite and limitless, with his backdrop being Silicon Valley and Zhejiang Province. It is in this Chinese epicenter of capitalist development that Soldofsky visits a Buddha statue factory. Nick Taylor’s novel “Father Junipero’s Confessor” explores the human drama underlying California’s mission era through the eyes of a Franciscan serving Junipero Serra. A book party, reading and signing for both authors will begin at 7 p.m. Sept. 30 in King 225/229.